Concentrating emissions
Ahmed Ghoniem of mechanical engineering leads an MIT effort to make coal plants cleaner by using a pressurized combustion system to capture carbon dioxide.
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The hunt for dark matter
MIT physicists are working on new detectors that may, at last, help them find the elusive particles thought to constitute up to a quarter of the universe.
Oddball stars explained
New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped rotation. In addition to shedding light on how binary stars form, the explanation knocks down a possible challenge to Einstein's theory of relativity.
Out of darkness, sight
By studying rare cases of restored vision in older children and young adults, MIT neuroscientists are figuring out how the brain learns to see.
Avoiding carbon copies
Can free-market enterprise generate clean-energy breakthroughs? Economist Daron Acemoglu says it's unlikely — unless government and universities help.
In Profile: Leonard Guarente
Biology professor discovered a gene at the center of aging. Now that research is yielding therapies that target the diseases of old age.
Two chips in one
MIT team finds a way to combine materials for semiconductor manufacture. The advance helps address the limitations of conventional silicon microprocessors.
After 52 years, Tech Talk ceases publication
Today, the News Office launches a new web site designed to serve the MIT community — and to tell the Institute's story to the wider world.
Fish and chips
New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.
Letter to the community on Institute-wide planning
Task Force's preliminary report released to the community
Echoes of the birth of the universe
Results of cosmic analysis set new limits on gravitational waves that could have come from the Big Bang, and begin to constrain current theories about universe formation